On Saturday, Ukraine will pay tribute to the memory of the 1932 - 1933 Great Famine (Holodomor) victims in connection with the 75th anniversary of the tragedy.

The events will start with President Viktor Yuschenko laying flowers to the Holodomor Victims Monument in Kyiv’s Mykhailivska Square.

Later, a liturgy will start, and a prayer for those who died of hunger, with participation of all religious organizations of Ukraine.

At 11:30, international forum My Nation Will Live Forever will start at the National Opera House with participation of Viktor Yuschenko and other countries’ presidents who were invited to the ceremony.

The Holodomor Memorial will also be unveiled and sanctified, and a mourning march with the President’s participation will be held on Saturday.

Then Yuschenko will address the nation.

At 16:00, the national minute of silence will be declared, following which all-Ukraine action Light the Candle will start.

As Ukrainian News reported, President of the Republic of Macedonia Branko Crvenkovski, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers, President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, and Head of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nebojsa Radmanovic will come to Ukraine to attend events marking the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor.

President Viktor Yuschenko declared 2008 the Year of Commemoration of the Great Famine Victims.

In 2006, Verkhovna Rada recognized Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

According to different estimates, the famine took lives of three to seven million people.